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Former Supt. Believed to Have Removed Local Papers from Store

Former Supt. Fred Foresteire
is alleged to have removed numerous Everett Independent newspapers from at
least one store last Wednesday, March 13, an edition of the paper that had a
story about him describing sensitive police allegations of sexual assault and
harassment.

The matter came to light
when a worker at one of the local convenience stores posted on Facebook that a
man that he believed to be Foresteire had allegedly come into his store and
allegedly took a huge stack of papers – with the worker alleging that he was
trying to prevent the news from getting out.

“The ex-Everett
Superintendent who is on the cover of the local papers for sexual assault
allegations just came and swiped all the Everett papers – like that makes it go
away haha,” read the post.

Along with the post was a
store surveillance video that showed what appears to be Foresteire coming into
the store and going to the stack of Independents twice to remove a large stack
of them.

At the store, on Ferry
Street, the Manager – and Facebook poster – Tommy Rodrigues said he was working
there when it happened. He and other employees claim that they recognized
Foresteire – some of the employees saying they have lived all their lives in
Everett and knew very well who Foresteire was.

That is why they were
shocked when he seemed to allegedly take the large stack of papers.

Rodrigues said Foresteire
came in and bought a Boston newspaper. Then he allegedly walked over to the
stack of local papers and looked at the Independent, allegedly then taking a
large stack. Then he walked towards the door, stopped, and returned to the
stack to allegedly take more.

Rodrigues said he took all
but about three of the papers. He said they were all surprised when he
allegedly did it.

“I thought it was shocking
he would allegedly take them,” he said. “It doesn’t make any of it go away. I
know these are accusations, but this doesn’t make him look very innocent.”

Another worker said
customers who know Foresteire said he allegedly had a lot more papers in his
backseat.

Rodrigues and other workers
said customers had been coming in all week to try to find the paper, noting
that they had said it was very hard to find at the usual spots.

An attorney for Foresteire
did not have a working phone number when the Independent tried to reach him at
three different numbers to comment on the allegations.

As a free newspaper, this
allegation does not involve theft, but calls into question limiting the
dissemination of information to the public.

In addition to store deliveries, the
Everett Independent also delivers more than 6,000 copies to residents in
Everett.